watching, happy birthday! captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, october 3rd, 2012. welcome to "cbs this morning." the first presidential debate is tonight and we'll talk with both campaigns and show you why republicans are suddenly agreeing with vice president biden. american airlines claims it's finally figured out why seats are coming apart in mid flight. and we'll meet the tv anchor who fought back on the air after a viewer criticized her weight. we begin with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> tonight is the big night of the first of three debate.

>> president obama and mitt romney set to square off did in denver. >> dealing with an october surprise after video of an old speech resurfaced. senator obama accuses u.s. government of short changing hurricane katrina victim. >> people down in new orleans they don't care about as much. >> meanwhile joe biden just gave the republicans some great new material. >> how they can justify raises taxes on the middle class that's been buried the last four years. >> i'm sorry, which candidate is he campaigning for? i'm confused. had hillary clinton put together an investigation for the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. american airlines plans to check at least 11 more planes for loose seats. clamps have caused the seats to come loose on three flights. hit by a car, stuck in its grill and managed to survive. >> the luckiest dog i've met. now cops looking for the

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will face each other on stage with millions of voters watching. >> as they got ready for their first debate, the president faced criticism for a five-year-old speech and his running mate misspoke again. jan crawford is live in colorado with a preview. good morning. >> good morning, norah. good morning, charlie. both candidates have been under enormous pressure, preparing for more than a month. we saw them take a break to get away from it all but then last night the video changed the conversation. romney went for mexican at chipotle along with ohio senator rob portman, playing the role of president obama in mock debates. in nevada, the president, who has been rehad hersing with massachusetts senator john kerry as romney, went to the hoover dam. >> it's spectacular. i've never seen it before. >> reporter: both left the day's campaigning to their number

twos. in charlotte, vice president joe biden was trying to argue that romney would raise taxes on the middle class when he implied that president obama's policies already have hurt. >> how they can justify raising taxes in the middle class that's been buried the last four years, how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes? >> reporter: biden later tried to dig out of that hole. but republicans pounced. >> vice president biden just today said that the middle class over the last four years has been, quote, buried. we agree. that means we need to stop digging by electing mitt romney the next president of the united states. >> reporter: but the day's events quickly were overshadowed by a 2007 speech of then presidential candidate and senator obama veering off his prepared script before a predominantly black audience he seemed to imply the federal government was withholding recovery money to new orleans after hurricane katrina based on

race. after september 11th and hurricane andrew in 1992 in florida, the government response was -- >> we're not going to wait for you to scratch it together because you're part of the american family. >> reporter: but after katrina, he said it was different. >> what's happening down in new orleans? where is your dollar? tells me that somehow the people down in new orleans, they don't care about as much. >> reporter: now in this speech we saw last night, the president said he didn't think the initial response to hurricane katrina was motivated by race. he said that incompetence was color blind. this speech was covered in 2007. it was aired last night on the conservative media, fox on hanity, the daily caller. that prompted some to speculate that perhaps the right is concerned about this campaign or wanting to throw a punch and others are saying maybe they're hoping to get under the president's skin going into tonight's debate. >> jan crawford, thank you. also at the debate site in denver is kevin madden.

senior adviser to the campaign. >> good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> governor romney has to be aggressive and at the same time relaxed, recognizing the circumstances. will we, tonight, see a new mitt romney? that we have not seen before? >> i think you'll see the mitt romney that really cares about putting the american people back to work. i think that's the most important goal that the governor has. you know, we've spent these last few months of this campaign trying to clarify the choice that americans have. and i think we've sumed it up very aptly with the question we posed to the american public, do they really want another four years like the last four years? whether it's tax reform, how we lower energy costs, how we lower health care costs, that's going to be an important question that governor romney poses. and essentially offer people that haven't made up their mind yet during this election the clear choice and contrast that with the failed record of the

obama administration. >> kevin, i want to get to some of the specifics on the issues. first i want to ask you about that video jan just showed in her piece, a speech obama made in 2007 covered by all of the networks who had reporter there is at the time. >> right. >> do you think that video is relevant? >> i think a lot of people -- voters have to make that up, look at that video and make up their mind on that individually. i thenk what's more important to this debate right now are the president's policies, the president's record over the past four years. that's going to be the most important topic on stage tonight. >> but kevin as you know -- >> the president's record on the economy and putting people back to work. that hasn't happened over the past four years. that's the more important debate. voters will be watching this conversation that we have tonight and they're going to ask themselves a question, do i want another four years of status quo that president obama is offering or do i want to set the country on a new course as it relates to

job creation, a new course as it relates to the economy? >> sean hanity said last night he thinks this video is a bombshell. do you think it's a bombshell and will the romney campaign use it in television ads as the obama team has used that 47% video in television ads? >> i think that it was covered in 2007. i think a number of folks are going to continue to cover it today. how they cover it in that context, a lot of that is up to individual voters and whether they think it's relevant to the conversation we're having today. we believe, as a campaign -- i think governor romney believes what's most relevant are the president's policies and how they're affecting the economy today, how they're affecting people's bottom line, how they're affecting household incomes. that's a much more relevant debate that we're going to focus on as a campaign. >> kevin, if they do not see a new romney, will they see a romney offering specifics as to deductions that he might prefer in terms of what we do not now see in tax reform?

>> well, it's hard to get into a whole lot of specifics, particularly when you're talking about something as complex as all the deductions that you would go through as far as broadening the base of tax reform. on the issue of tax reform, i think governor romney would offer a great deal of specifics. >> that we have not heard before. >> on what he would do as far as the middle class -- >> that we haven't heard before? >> a lot of that, charlie, depends on the question. a lot of the specifics that you're talking about as far as what tax reform looks like, whether it's lowering the corporate rate in order to make sure we're more competitive as an economy in this global marketplace but also lowering middle class taxes and making the economy more competitive as a result, i think you'll hear more details of specifics. you'll hear a great contrast because the president's reforms haven't done enough to help the economy. >> kevin madden, thank you. let's turn to robert gibbs, senior adviser to the obama campaign. good morning, robert.

>> good morning, guys. how are you? >> good. i also want to give you an opportunity to respond to that tape that was air bid fox, the president talking about what happened in new orleans. does the president believe the bush administration did not help the victims of had hurricane ka treen a because of their race? >> well, look, as you said, the president said that the incompetence that surround ed hurricane katrina was color blind. disaster assistance requires a 10% match for communities to qualify for disaster assistance. we waived it for hurricane andrew, we waived it for new york city in 9 the/11 and barack obama and members of the mississippi and louisiana delegations all believed we should also waive it for new orleans. >> you're not worried about that effects of this tape? >> if the republicans want to defend the bush administration's response to katrina, i'm sure the president would give them his time during the debate to do

that. i have to say i'm a little amazed that a widely covered speech likely by people at your network has somehow caused a ke kerflu kerfluffle because someone like hannity decides to cover it five years later. >> let me move on. is there something that the obama campaign believes the president has to do tonight because clearly the romney people believe this is their opportunity to reset this campaign? >> i think what you'll hear the president do tonight is have a conversation directly with the american people about where we've been the past four years and what we have to continue to do to move forward to strengthen our economy, build it from the middle out and give people a real sense of security and opportunity, talk about retraining workers and bringing

manufacturing jobs back in this country, hiring new math and science teachers to improve our education, doubling our exports, all those things that will help create jobs as we move forward and strengthen our economy. i was struck by kevin's answer about the fact that once again the romney campaign says they really don't have time to discuss the specifics of their tax plan. and, you know, this is a $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy. >> we also haven't heard the specifics of what the president prepared to do in terms of spending cuts as well. >> i don't think that's true. if you look at the budget plan that the president is outlining, $4 trillion spending cut plan that deals with making sure that our tax code is fair and that those that are on the upper end of that tax code are pay iing a little bit more. let's be clear, mitt romney's $5 trillion tax plan isn't hard to explain because of the time. it's hard to explain because of the math. the math doesn't add up. $5 trillion isn't paid for. what that requires, as economic

studies have shown, is that mitt romney will have to raise taxes on middle class families. >> speaking of middle class families, robert, median household income for americans in the four years that barack obama has been in office has dropped $4,000. middle class families are hurting. and yesterday, the vice president, joe biden, said how can you justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years. was that a gaffe by biden, or was he speaking the truth? >> what vice president biden was saying is what i believe many middle class families throughout this country believe, median household income at any time fall in the last four years. median household income fell in the last decade for the first time since we began keeping statistics. >> the vice president said buried the last four years, suggesting something happened during the obama administration. >> no. what joe biden and president obama have suggested each and every day on this campaign trail is that we had eight years of

horrific economic decisions, tax cuts for the very wealthy, wall street writing its own rules, culminating in an economic disaster that took place about four years ago, of which we've had to dig out from each day of the last four years. but let's be clear, norah, the middle class has been buried for a lot longer than the time we've been dealing with bad economic decisions from the former administration. people in the middle class have been working harder each and every day and watching their wages decline. >> robert gibbs, good to see you this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> tonight's coverage of the debate begins at 9:00 eastern time, 6:00 in the west. for the first time since the deadly attack in benghazi, libya, secretary of state hillary clinton is responding to congress' demand for more information. margaret brennan in washington has seen the request and the response. margaret, good morning. >> good morning to you, charlie. secretary clinton pledged that

nobody will hold this department more accountable than we will hold ourselves. a known security failure at the benghazi conflict. representative darrel issa detailed this in a letter saying prior to the september 11th attack, the u.s. mission in libya made repeated requests for increased security in benghazi. the mission in libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in washington. issa, his staff has not detailed the new intelligence and has not shared it with all democratic committee members, leading to allegations that they're politicizing the attack. its own five-person committee, chairman of the joint chiefs included, will begin their probes this week. senior aides will hand over e-mails to show who knew what and when. the state department has avoided comments on the investigation, but today the secretary will respond to questions about the contradictory reports of just what happened in benghazi.

>> that will likely be news. margaret brennan, thank you very much. american airlines pilots say they'll resume contract talks with the airline later this week. meanwhile the airline has found more planes with seats that could come loose in mid flight. at a dallas-ft. worth airport, america american's main hub. >> reporter: their concern, a problem with seats not adequately attached to the floor. now so far, american reports it has found a total of six planes with the problem. those jets cleared maintenance checks before takeoff. after inspecting nearly half of its active boeing 757 fleet, american airlines says it now knows why seats have been coming loose mid flight, blaming a device known as a saddle clamp used to secure a row of three seats to the floor.

>> we've deployed a number of mechanics throughout the entire system. >> reporter: david campbell was vice president of safety and security at american. >> we believe we have narrowed it down to how those were installed. >> reporter: two flights were forced to make emergency landings. the first incident occurred last wednesday on a flight from vail to dallas. the problem resurfaced saturday on the same plane, flying from boston to miami. >> the seat is loose. we don't want that thing flying around and hurting the passengers behind them. >> reporter: american says it hasn't been able to link the issue to one maintenance facility, but the company has ruled out sabotage. >> after both contract and our own internal maintenance. so finding what's causing was mechanical or human error is what we're trying to do. >> reporter: despite the company's ongoing labor dispute, travel experts are still not

telling passengers to steer clear of the airline. >> i will tell you personal for thanksgiving and christmas i have a trip booked on american. i don't feel uncomfortable with it. if you ask me in three weeks and they haven't solve this had labor issue i night mite get a little more uncomfortable. >> reporter: the two planes that had the original problem are now back in service. american airlines says no passengers have been injured in any of those incidents. >> time to show you the headlines from this morning. shot tuesday, another agent was wounded. they were responding to an alarm. >> former penn state football coach mike mcqueary is suing penn state university. he was the star witness against jerry sandusky. he claims

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everybody. 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. get you caught up with some bay area headlines now. berkeley fire investigators are at work right now trying to find the cause of an overnight duplex fire. five people got out safely including a woman in a wheelchair who was rescued by the police. hot weather is to blame for gas prices that could jump 30 cents by friday. high temperatures apparently knocked out power to southern california in a refinery there. wholesale prices are up more than a dollar since last week. >> and a big game this afternoon at the oakland coliseum. the as and the rangers play for the american league west title. oakland beat texas 3-1 last night. both teams are in the play-offs but the winner jumps right into the al divisional series. the loser will have to play a one-game wild card game on

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good morning. we'll take you towards the bay bridge toll plaza. it is a busy morning once again if you are trying to get into san francisco. metering lights are on. and it is stacked up into the maze. let's see. we had an early-morning fender- bender approaching the pay gates. it is long since cleared. but anyway we're left with a good wait behind the toll plaza. elsewhere, the nimitz 880 through oakland, not too bad so far. around 8:00 backs up past the oakland coliseum. that's your "timesaver traffic." here's lawrence. >> we have a lot of sunshine outside right now. looking good toward the golden gate bridge. nice and clear maybe late in the day though seeing patchy fog moving in. 50s and 60s now, not as hot today but hot enough to have 90s in the valleys. 60s and 70s coastside. captions by: caption colorado

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back to year zero of america. they will abandon the cities and seek refuge in caves, speaking in hushed tones about the time man saw fire from the sky. shred your money for our currency shall be blood sacrificed for new rulers. oh, show us your mercy, whiskered one. or romney could get a two-point bump. either way, it's news. welcome back to "cbs this morning." five months after a man was accused of a multimillion dollar

charity fraud, we finally know his real name. >> authorityies say he's a harvard law school graduate who has been wanted by the fbi for a very long time. 48 hours correspondent erin moriarty has the story. >> john donald cody has been on the run since 1984 when he suddenly fell off the grid around the same time he was accused of fraud. cody and a man named bobby thompson are one in the same person and allege he's responsible for one of the largest charity scams in u.s. history. the many faces of a man who called himself bobby thompson, a master of disguise that authorities believe was hiding a checkered past. last april, thompson, posing as a retired canadian mounty, was resting at this house in oregon. >> not dressed up in a fancy suit, just a regular person.

>> being pursued by authorities in a nine-state cross country manhunt as the alleged master mind behind an organization called the united states navy veterans association, a fake charity that took in $100 million in donations over an eight-year period. authorities say the money never got to the people it was supposed to. instead, with a reputation acquired through a seemingly successful charity, thompson used the money to gain access to some of the nation's most powerful republicans, including house speaker john boehner, former presidential candidate ru rudy giuliani and john mccain and even president george w. bush. but when he was transferred to ohio to face charges, the man authorities believed to be thompson signed in to prison as mister x, leading ofgs ining of believe he was hiding something more. >> major fraud fugitives. >> u.s. marshal peter elliott

said by simply searching the internet he found an fbi wanted posted for a similar-looking man, john donald cody, harvard educated attorney who mysterious disappeared from his arizona law practice in 1984 and was later indicted in four counts of estate fraud. original wanted posters described a man without tear ducts. former landlady was called who said her one-time tenant left behind something unusual, two big bottles of eye drops. >> it's said that he had no tear ducts, that he had to use eye drops all the time. in my world, in our world, one and one equals two. >> reporter: also left behind in that apartment, one dvd. >> it's been a while since i've done this. which one is the jump seat again? >> reporter: a fugitive on the run in "catch me if you can." but it wasn't until the fbi searched the military's own fingerprint files, going back to 1969, the year cody last served,

that a positive match was finally made. >> we love doing this. whoa love catching the people that don't think they can be caught. and even more than that, we love identifying the people that think they never can be identified. >> in another twist of events to this multi-layered tale, the fbi has linked cody to an espionage investigation. it will be interesting to see if there are any charges brought on that. >> we're being joined now by john miller. thank you, erin. what do you make of this? >> there's something a little off here. listening to this story and talking to the marshal yesterday, they said we ran the prints when we arrested him and nothing came back. we went through the internet photos. why shouldn't they come back when you ran the prints? this will run every conspiracy

theory. we don't know why his prints weren't in the system. in clarksburg, virginia, 70 million prints. you run them. they come back in 12 minutes and have wanted posters out on this guy for both federal irs indictment for fraud and suspected espionage. you would have thought they would have added his prints to fielt. >> he was just indicted, never arrested on those. >> but the military had his prints on file the way they have the prints of everybody in the military, particularly those in military intelligence. and what should have happened was an agent should have gone down to the military, picked up those prints when they put out the wanted poster and added them into his file. he could have been stopped for dui. >> the moral of this story, we need to coordinate all prints? >> i bet what happened here is you've got an irs case in phoenix, sechlt spionage case in washington, fbi fugitive case in

phoenix and every fbi agent thought the other guy had pulled the prints and put them in the suspect. it's probably pretty mundane but people will speculate and make it more interesting. >> he started off on the straight and narrow. he first came out of harvard, went to work for a very prestigious law firm in new york city. when he went to arizona he tried to set up a system where you would have lawyers appointed for indigents. in may he takes off with $100,000 of a client's, allegedly, and starts off on this life of crime. >> what's this spying about? >> the espionage case has to do with -- as all of this was spinning up in the fraud thing, he apparently tried to make contact with or made contact with a hostile foreign power or intelligence officer. and because of his former secret clearances, the fact that he was a reservist in intelligence, that's what he was saying, where they do very sensitive work, they wanted to know why are you

talking to these people? that is something now that they have him they will focus on. >> he was hiding in plain sight, having pictures taken with senator john mccain, congresswoman michele bachmann. >> speaker boehner. >> rudy giuliani. >> that's interesting. aaron erin moriarty, john miller, thank you. crash dummies used to be nothing more than rag dolls. now they've gone high tech. where some very smart dummies are helping to save lives. you're watching "cbs this morning." ,,,,

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it. and got a standing ovation. >> we were hoping for a home run, weren't we? >> yeah. >> but he got what he really wanted to do, that moment to come back. >> inspired us all. more americans are dying on the highway. traffic deaths rose 9% in 2012. analysts think that people are driving more thanks to the economy and a mild winter. >> reduce the amount of traffic deaths, mark strassmann visited a general motors test lab. you really went behind the scene. >> we did, nora. all part of the car's cocoon with the physics of crashes. the life they save could be yours. you'll find some of the smartest dummies in the world. high caliber bullet travels 100 feet and fatal car accident can go from start to finish. 32,000 americans were killed in

motor vehicle accidents in 2011, the lowest number since the government started keeping records in 1949. outside detroit, jack jensen's worth is to make that deadly number drop faster. >> our cars are safer today due to the workhorse of this family of crash dummies and the work they do, day in, and day out. >> jensen runs the crash test dummy lab for general motors. >> this is the family? >> this is our family of hybrid crash test dummies. we've had different sizes of adults and different sizes of children. >> jensen's 12 employee s test anthropomorp hichlt c test devices, atds. >> designed to mimic how a real person's chest would compress. how the dummy's neck bends during a severe crash is also

designed to bend the way a human's neck would bend during a crash. >> it's painful to see. this is how they research how wrecks affect necks. car crashes are as old as cars and so is the drive to help people survive. in the 190s, the process was primitive at best. for a roll over test, engineers pushed a car sideways down a steep hill. to re-create a head-on crash, a very human driver had to actually jump out at the last second before his car hit the steel wall. and this is the great grandfather of today's dummies, tha served general motors in world war ii. >> dummy evolution, side by side here. this is how many years apart? oh, sorry. sorry, guy. >> this dummy is from the 1940s. he was used by the united states military for parachute testing. it would have been dropped from

an airplane with a parachute and you would have picked up the dummy and see what broke. >> by comparison, today's testing technology is staggering. gm is already testing the next generation of crash stand-ins, sensors on the latest start dummy can measure two data points per second. >> walk me through the guts of this thing. >> this is our new crash dummy. these are made out of high-strength steel and designed to mimic human ribs when impacted from the side. >> this one lab, which gm says is the largest in the world has 170 test dummies. there are 25 different shapes and sizes, ranging from 25,000 to $400,000 a piece, about $20 million worth of dummies. there are about 350 frontal crash tests a year at this lab. and more than 100 rollovers.

all told, they perform about 10,000 separate tests a year here, from cars to car seats. >> when used correctly, it can reduce the risk of fatality by 71% for a child. >> how often is it used correctly? >> not as often as we like. three out of four car

attacks like this are not okay. i am obese. do you think you are pointing out something i don't know? >> an anchor tells a viewer to back off after she is told she is a bad role model. getting a huge response online. >> we'll ask her why she spoke out like this, something she's never done in her 15-year career. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll have more. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by levemir flexpen.

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everyone. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. wall street will be paying close attention to what meg whitman has to say today. the ceo of palo alto-based hewlett-packard will give her first annual presentation to investors. hp is coming off its worst quarter ever and stocks have fallen to a 10-year low. whitman told the "new york times" last week she will have t explain strategies for the company. baseball games don't get much more exciting than this in the bay area. the as play the rangers at the coliseum this afternoon in the finale to the 162-game regular season. the winner will be champion of the american league western division. oakland beat texas last night and both teams are already

assured a play-off spot. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. ,,,,,,

let's check 880 in oakland. it's starting to slow down in the northbound lanes past the oakland coliseum where the ace will be playing at 12:35 this afternoon. just a heads up could cause some traffic tie-ups. southbound 880 looks okay towards the oakland airport. crash westbound 24 right before the caldecott tunnel. so it's backed up now heading out of orinda. that is traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> a lot of sunshine around the bay area but by the afternoon, we may see some patchy fog making a return out there. live right now looking good as we look out toward the valleys. we pan around, lots of sunshine a little hazy approaching the coastline, the temperatures staying on the mild side this morning, 50s and a few 60s now. by the afternoon it will still be hot in the valleys but the triple digits are gone maybe about 94 in livermore, about 86 in the napa valley. 76 in san francisco. cooler temperatures on the way, cooler than normal on the week and showers on monday. ,,,,

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♪ . good morning everybody. it is 8:00 a.m. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a news anchor goes on the air and tells a critic, you have no right to criticize my weight. we'll talk with her in just a moment. we'll follow a great white shark that researchers caught and tagged a few weeks ago. where did it go? we'll show you. first, here is a look at what's happening in the world and what we've been covering here on "cbs this morning." >> both of these candidates are under enormous pressure to perform tonight. they've be preparing for ore than a month. for the first time, president obama and governor mitt romney will face each other on stage with millions of american voters watching. >> i think you'll see the mitt romney that cares about putting the american people back to

work. i think that's the most important goal that the governor has. >> i think what you'll hear the president do tonight is have a conversation directly with the american people about where we've been over the past four years and what we have to continue to do moving forward. secretary clinton pledged tuesday that nobody will hold this department more accountable than we hold ourselves. that statement was prompted by a claim of a known security failure at the benghazi conflict. american airlines has found more planes with seats that could come loose in mid flight. the two planes that had the original problem are now back in service. american airlines says no passengers have been injured in any of those incidents. this is how many years apart? i'm sorry. >> sorry guy. last night the miami marlins gave adam greenberg another chance. he struck out on three pitches. presidential debates will be seen live on youtube. as a result both candidates have been busy learning how to dance gangnam style.

i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. a television anchor is making her own news this morning by calling out a critic who said her weight makes her a bad role model. >> jennifer livingston of our cbs affiliate wkbt in lacrosse, wisconsin, went on air tuesday with this message to your viewers. >> i want to take a moment to address a situation that has become a talking point especially on facebook that centers around me. on friday i received the following e-mail from a lacrosse man with a subject line "community responsibility." it reads as follows. hi, jennifer. it's unusual that i see your morning show but i did so for a very short time today. i was surprised indeed to witness that your physical condition hasn't improved for many years. surely you don't consider yourself a suitable example for this community's young people, girls in particular.

obesity is one of the worst choices a person can make and one of the most dangerous habits to maintain. i leave you this note hoping that you'll reconsider your responsibility as a local public personality to present and promote a healthy lifestyle. now, those of us in the media, we get a healthy dose of critiques from our viewers throughout the year, and we realize that it comes from having a job in the public eye, but this e-mail was more than that. while i tried my best to laugh off the very hurtful attack on my appearance, my colleagues could not do the same, especially my husband, our 6:00 and 10:00 anchor mike thompson. mike posted this e-mail and what happened next has been truly inspiring. hundreds and hundreds of people have taken the time out of their day to not only lift my spirits, but take a stand that attacks like this are not okay. we're going to have more on that in just a second. but first, the truth is, i am

overweight. you can call me fat and yes, even obese on a doctor's chart. but to the person who wrote me that letter, do you think i don't know that, that your cruel words are pointing out something that i don't see? you don't know me. you are not a friend of mine. you are not a part of my family and you have admitted that you don't watch the show, so you know nothing about me but what you see on the outside. and i am much more than a number on a scale. we need to teach our kids how to be kind, not critical, and we need to do that by example. so many of you have come to my defense over the past four days, i am literally overwhelmed by your words. we are better than that e-mail. we are better than the bully that is would try to take us down. i leave you with this, to all the children out there who feel lost, who are struggling with your weight, with the color of your skin, your sexual preference, your disability, even the acne on your face,

listen to me right now. do not let yourself-worth be defined by bullies. learn from my experience that the cruel words of one are nothing compared to the shouts of many. >> jennifer livingston is with us now. good morning, jennifer. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> well, we in the media get criticized often. and you decided to fight back and call this particular viewer out. why? >> in my opinion, getting e-mails, usually it's something about a story which i think is fair game or something about the coat i'm wearing or the way my hair is styled. this was paernl attack, not only on my size, but on my ability to roll model our community and young girls. and i am a mother of three girls and that hit home and i did not think that is fair. that e-mail was well written. it was articulate. make no mistake about it, it was

meant to hurt my feelings. it was meant to shame me into losing weight, and in my opinion, that's a bully. >> jennifer, you say it was cruel, that e-mail, and your response to it has gone viral. i saw it on twitter. people tweeting to me saying have you seen this? were you surprised by the reaction? >> very surprised. i have never done anything like that. i've never done an editorial in my 15 years in the business. so i knew it would get some reaction locally. i was hoping to inspire people within our community to start the conversation about bullying. i had no idea that this would happen. i'm happy it did. i'm not sure what i've gotten myself into. but i can champion a cause for students and kids out there, i'm happy to do it. >> i have to say, jennifer, go you. i get these cranky yankee e-mails all the time so i know exactly what you mean and how you feel. i am curious, though, about how you feel about your weight. those of us who struggle with

weight. i'm a card-carrying member of jenny craig. i know this struggle. i know what it means. how do you feel? are you thinking, i am fine the way i am or, listen, i am trying to lose a couple pounds. >> i have always struggled with my weight since i started having children, since my daughter was born ten years ago. it has been a roller coaster ride of weight gain and loss. i lost 40 pounds between my second and third child and gained it all back and then some with thigh mie third child who is now a year old. if i cannot shop off the plus-size rack, that would be great. i'm not ashamed of myself. i'm proud of who i am. i think i do a job that is not necessarily worth being critical about my appearance. talk to me about the stories i cover, not the way i look. >> there you go. >> jennifer, part of the story is what you said and did. the other part is the response from people. what do you think it was about?

what's the greater meaning of this and how much did it mean to you? >> well, i have had the conversation with my own 10-year-old daughter about bullying, and i'm trying to encourage her, step up for people who are being bullied. if someone is coming after you, you need to be strong and stand up for yourself. when we talked about this e-mail as a family, what kind of a role model if i don't do it myself. that is what i have seen as a reaction from the people literally around the world. they're saying thank you for standing up for us. i think it's not just a weight issue. this is not a weight issue. people are bullied about so many different things. and we just need to take a stand. it's not okay. i think hopefully i'm going to be one of many that is taking the charge in that, and we can change the way that our society is today. >> have you had any communication with the man who sent you the e-mail? i see he's released another statement. >> yes. he released a statement. we reached out to him. we actually invited him on our

show and he declined to do that. he released a statement saying he hopes this platform i have now been given is a great opportunity for me to lose weight in front of everywhere and he encourages me to do that and hopes in a year i will be a better example of health for people. he's standing strong. >> you know what? i think the role model that you show is not everybody on tv has to be a skinny mini to be successful. i say go you, jennifer livingston. i know who your brother is, ron livingston. what does he say to you? he was on sex and the city. >> i got an e-mail that said something like, whoa, saw you all over the place and way to go, sis. >> we say that, too. thank you, jennifer. it is now 8:09. time now to check your local weather.

vice president joe biden has a few more republican fans this morning. we'll show you the latest slipup some say as we look ahead to tonight's presidential debate on "cbs this morning." ,,,,,,,,,,

on the dayf on the day of the first presidential debate, vice president joe biden's critics are saying there you go again. biden said that the middle class of america has been in his words buried the last four years. republicans say that's an indictment of the obama administration. bill plante is on sight in denver. >> mitt romney got new ammunition and from none other

than the vice president of the united states, joe biden. this is not the first time that biden's sort of foot-in-the-mouth propensity has given ammunition to the other side. biden accused romney of planning to raids taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts on the wealthy. >> how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that's been buried the last four years, how in lord's name can they justify raises the taxes. >> republicans pounced, calling biden's remarks that the middle class has been buried for four years a stunning admission. the obama campaign called that a desperate and out of context attack. the vice president shrugged off his tendency to shoot from the lip. >> no one has ever doubted i mean what i say. the problem si sometimes say all that i mean. >> reporter: in august

republicans and some democrats were outraged when biden make that reference to an audience of african-america african-americans. >> he's going to let the big banks write their own rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put y'all back in chains. >> reporter: there was a time in may when biden forced the president's hand on the gay marriage issue. going on "meet the press" and endorsing same-sex unions before the president's announcement. >> i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights and civil liberties. quite frankly, i don't see much of a distinction between that. >> it may be just a coincidence. biden has done almost no national tv interviews since then. a week from tomorrow, there will be plenty of questions from biden on the debate stage

against ryan. biden's best bet may be simply to stick to the script. charlie, norah? >> it's hard to stick to the script sometimes. thank you, bill plante. danny walberg toured with the new kids on the block this summer. his latest stop is our green room. we'll ask him about reviving his boy band days in the new season of his hit show "bluebloods." you're watching cbs. ,,,,,,,,,,

cats may have nine lives, but we have a story of two dogs who may be the ultimate survivors. >> one met up with a car on the east coast and another had trouble with a truck on the west coast. it's incredible they're both alive. >> since the invention of the automobile, the relationship between man and dog has been doomed. >> poor little guy. probably kept up with you for a mile or so.

>> tough little mut. >> reporter: the topic found its way to the campaign trail as one late night dog lover won't let the republican nominee forget. >> it's not like i put my dog in the car and my wife on the roof. >> reporter: now there are two entries in the feud between man's best friend and man's favorite machine. the first began on a strip of rhode island highway in late september. animal control officer will muggels responded to a call that a small dog was trapped in the grill of a car. >> she was holding on to the front of the bumper for dear life. >> reporter: this tough little poodle was hit by a car going 50 miles per hour. the driver stopped but didn't find the dog until 11 miles later. after freeing the pooch, officer muggle used a tracking microchip to sniff out the owners who claimed suzy on tuesday. >> a friend of mine called me and said he saw her on the news.

i couldn't believe it. just amazing. >> reporter: suzy has fully recovered from her minor injuries. >> this is definitely one of the luckiest dogs i ever met. >> reporter: the saga continued across the country when a unsuspecting driver found a furrey freeloader trapped under his hood at a stop light in california. >> i came out of my truck and i looked under there and right through there i saw fur sticking out. to my surprise when i opened up the hood, he gave me like a smile. and i took a picture right away. >> reporter: this dog survived a 110-mile drive in 100-degree heat. and the owners aren't located, the man plans to take him home. so it seems this time and the dog days of october it's mut over machine. for "cbs this morning," terrell brown, new york. >> how much do we love that story? >> we love the story. >> we love it, yeah. >> they're both okay. this morning we'll track a

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at chase.com/mainstreet >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald it's 8:25. i'm michelle griego with your cbs 5 headlines. investigators in berkeley are trying to figure out what caused a duplex to go up in flames. the building on bienvenue avenue caught fire around midnight. five people got out safely including a woman in a wheelchair who was rescued by police. the hot weather is blamed for gas prices that could jump 30 cents by friday. high temperatures knocked out power to a southern california refinery. wholesale prices are up more than a dollar since last week. and the as take on the rangers for the american league west title today. the game starts at 12:35 at the coliseum. oakland beat texas 3-1 last night. both teams are in the play- offs. but the winner will go into the divisional series. stay with us, traffic and

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good morning. we have been watching a problem in the caldecott tunnel. it's in the commute direction westbound 24 approaching the right bore, there's an accident there involving a pickup truck and this is what it's doing to the morning commute. really stacked up. especially through lafayette. we're seeing slowing on our traffic sensors as far back as walnut creek. also down towards the south bay northbound 280 approaching 10th we have an accident there so

it's stacking up throughout downtown san jose and even beyond that accident, slow all the way out towards cupertino. quick look outside our live "timesaver traffic" cameras, very slow and go this morning, northbound 880 from hayward towards downtown. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right. lots of sunshine around the bay area to start out the day although we have some changes expected toward the afternoon looking toward russian hill on the golden gate bridge, mostly clear skies, haze at the coast. otherwise, clear skies and the temperatures mainly in the 60s in most spots. 65 in san jose. 64 degrees in oakland. and 60 degrees in san francisco. by this afternoon, not as hot. still some temperatures moving up to the 90s into the valleys. lots of 70s inside the bay, 80s in the santa clara valley. along the coast patchy fog moving back in, temperatures spike to the maximum in the morning, cooling off in the afternoon with patchy fog. more clouds on the way in the next couple of days, below temperatures over the weekend, slight chance of showers monday. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,, ,,,,,,

♪ what a movie. coming soon guess what, john travolta and olivia john are together again. the co-star of "grease" are putting out a christmas album. including a sequel to "you're the one i want." welcome to cbs "this morning." two weeks ago we brought you the

story of o search. a team of fishermen and scientists trying to learn about great white sharks about catching them and tagging them with gps trackers. >> two of the group's founders are here to update us on their historic research off cape cod, massachusetts. >> we were there for the spot tag and release of a white shark and since our last report o search caught and released another. here's a quick look back. >> a 15-foot shark. >> last month the group called o search caught and maneuvered a live 2,000 pound white shark on to their boats, history was made in the waters off of cape cod. >> can you believe it? >> for the first time ever in the north atlantic a satellite enabled computer was attached to the dorsal fin of a white shark. it's aggressive, extremely

difficult method. o search founder said it's needed to learn more about great whites. >> we don't know where they breed, where they feed, where they give birth. until we figure that out we can't put policy in place to protect people. >> he believes they need protection from finning which kills millions of sharks every year. >> this has never been tried before. >> how is it possible we don't know anything about them? >> well, because we've spent a lot of time trying to figure out why they occasionally bite people and not necessarily how they live. >> five days after catching jeanne their first white shark off of cape cod the osearch team caught and spot tagged an even bigger one, a 3,500 pound female named mary lee. >> mary lee. big girl. >> the two sharks are pinging

within their location. their latest moments can be accessed by anyone online. >> chris fisher is here along with the captain of osearch. >> thanks for having us. >> here's my question. what is more nerve-racking appearing on live television or wrestling a 3,500 pound mary sue. it's amazing. nerves of steel when he's on that boat. he just like hones right in and yet -- yeah. >> what's the secret to that? >> just focus. we're all so focused on the health of the shark and, you know, we all work together so well as a team. >> really. >> bringing world class fishermen together with scientists and pioneering new methods. >> tell us what we've learned about her track. what does it tell us? >> it's amazing, with the new

technology. the big shocker with jeanne she's living off of cape dodd. mary lee has moved down to north carolina from cape cod. so really surprising to scientists where they live and how quickly they move. >> how far will they go? >> nobody knows. >> what do we think about their moving for feeding habits, mating? >> the key is to figure that out. we don't know how to effect policy to protect shark. we're trying to use this tagging and tracking to figure out where do they breed and where do they give birth to protect those vulnerable areas. >> if you learn that you can do what in. >> take it to politicians and get destructive types out of breeding areas. sharks keep the system in balance. we must make sure there's a robust population in the future. >> how about jeff?

did he have nerves -- >> news expedition. he hung in there for days and days. it was awesome. >> brett is right by the mouth of this great white when it first came out. i went on the lift and they said i could go out there. brett is trying to monitor everything. i looked at brett i said can i come over there and stand next to you. he's like yeah. and i did and it was -- it was once-in-a-lifetime. >> never allowed that to happen. >> there have been questions about how much stress the process puts on these sharks because you're catching them and tagging them and releasing them. what have you found about that? >> well the doctor of studying that while we were in cape cod and our blood work and it shows they recover quite quickly and under significantly less stress than other sharks and tuna that are tagged like this.

>> why great whites? what is about it them? >> they are the lion of the ocean. >> the lion of the ocean. >> the apex predator. if we remove them from the system the system will collapse. if we lose the ocean we lose the la net. >> meanest toughest thing in the ocean. >> they are the balance keeper. if you remove them from the system, there's a whole trickle down, domino effect. we must save the sharks. >> and the danger is real. >> the danger is real. the danger is shark finning up to 73 million sharks a year, 200,000 today will be killed for a bowl of soup. if that continues the ocean will spiral into just a lifeless area. >> incredible story. thanks to all of you. before donnie wahlberg was a blue-blood he was a new kid on the block. he spent the summer with a group who first made him a star. this morning we'll,,,,,,,,

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this smells different than usual. >> i followed the recipe. >> what did you do to it? >> what are you talking about? it smells fine. >> it's disgusting. >> it's terrible. >> i don't know. maybe i didn't have the asiago cheese. all they had was the cheese in the can so i used that. >> in the can? >> canned cheese. >> come on, cheese is cheese. what? >> donnie wahlberg stars in the hit cbs crime barack obama "bluebloods." >> the actor singer, producer just start ad new season last week after a world twour tour we

new kids on the block. remember them? see who you meet in our green room. during commercial break he was taking down the number he wants to go swimming with the sharks. >> yeah. it's really true. these guys were here and you ask these questions. how do they do it? nobody knows anything about sharks. i watch "shark week" every year. it's fascinating. they invited notice go on the boat. i'm like yes. >> they invited you after you said i want to go. i want to go. >> i wasn't shy. >> let's go back in time to new kids on the block. in the new book out today, you said that you were like the kid that got the golden ticket in the contest hadn't started. you were 4 going on 15. >> when i met our soon music producer as a kid who was known in boston from producing the band new edition. >> nice hair, donnie. >> thank you. i had a lot of it back then.

it was sort of like -- i grew up sort of as a dreamer. i was on the school bus with other members in boston. it was known as a racist city or was because of the bussing controversy in the '70s when white kids were forced into black neighborhoods and black kids into white neighborhoods. there was protesting. i was on those buses and really was what short of shaped my life. i grew up going to school with all-black kids and spanish kids and kids of all races. i got to learn to dream and to imagine, you know, greater things for myself. than i would have just being in the neighborhood with my friend and my older brothers and imagining when oil steal my first car like my older brothers. >> you come from a family of nine kids. >> i have to ask you about that. several members of your family are also in the entertainment business, a lot of people of course know marc wahlberg your brother and others.

what was that like and how did you become so active? >> it was pretty interesting growing up with nine of us. the fight was always for a little bit of attention. that sort of why i sort of gravitated towards the spot light. i found at an early age that getting positive attention worked for me. i think sometimes when you grow up in a big family and parents are struggling to get by. we had it pretty tough. there were times when, you know, they were shutting the water out front and nine kids and my dad and the dog were chasing the water department, come back here. we had it tough. i found that positive reaction, it was a good way tore me to get attention. other kids don't. sometimes in the struggle to be noticed by your parents kids do the wrong thing and i think some of my brothers and sisters made those choice. >> the family has a restaurant called wahlbergers. what makes a good burger? >> cheese. we grew up with the free cheese.

we used to get free cheese and free peanut butter and all the government aid food but we used the same cheese from those early days in our childhood because it melts the best. >> is it american cheese? >> yeah. >> cheddar is always good. >> free cheese. >> on "bluebloods" the executive producer said you're the engine that drive the show. that's a very nice thing to say. do you feel that? >> coming from him that's an amazing compliment. being on a show with tom se selleck, hard to take credit for being the engine. he's been doing this for so long. network with him every day is a real treat. >> you live tweet through the show which is interesting. how do you deal with some of the negative tweets? >> you know what? twitter has helped me. growing up in the kid in the spotlight i wasn't ready for the negative stuff that comes along with it.

i would read criticisms in the local papers where i grew up, i wanted to be in those newspapers and now i am for all the wrong reasons. all i was doing was making pop records and i'm splashed on the pages for this and all these wrong deeds. twitter sort of as an adult has helped me because i realize if i shine a light on the one negative comment and don't pay attention to the 3 million positive ones that come in i'm bringing attention to the negativity. i learned to ignore the bad stuff and focus on the good stuff and i have the power to eliminate the negative stuff if i houston astros to and that's what i choose to do. >> tell me how to do that. i get one negative and that's the one that sticks with me all day long. that's true. >> it's at the expense of all the people. >> thank you donnie. good to see you. continued success friday night "bluebloods." at 10:00, 9:00 central right here on cbs. film critic david den by want to know do the movies have a

future. he's here to tell us why the hollywood studios are losing the plot. david joins us at the table next on cbs "this morning". ,,,,,,

dan hurd: when i was a child, california was a leader in education funding. erika derry: and the fact that california isn't making it a priority frustrates me. dan hurd: i'm ashamed of that, and i don't want this to continue for my daughter. brenda kealing: prop 38 is going to bring a lot of money to our schools. suzan solomon: the money stays at the school site. cade derry: what i would really like to see is that the teachers... that were laid off come back to the school. navaz hurd: a smaller class size. navaz hurd: as a mom i want that. as a teacher i want that.

you want to set up a movie in a week. you want to line hollywood, a town where everybody lies for a living. then you get a sneak 007 into a country that wants cia blood on their breakfast cereal and walk the brady bunch out of the most city in the world. >> that's right.

>> right. look, i got to tell you. we did suicide missions in the army that had better odds than this. >> i want to see it. the new movie "argo." the cia use as fake hollywood production to cover up a rescue mission in iran. the trouble lately in hollywood is not enough people are watching real movies. >> film critic david den by says the movie business is in trouble. he just put out a collection of essays about movies. do the movies have a future is published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs. what do you mean by movies? we know there's new distribution modes coming on. >> i'm a romantic about the theatrical experience. i love going in the dark to sit with strangers you laugh and cry at the same time. people come out of a good movie they are glazed like zombies. they are trying to hold on to that image.

my problem with all of these super productions of all the pixels flying around and meaning nothing is it just vanishes. you have no imprint. you wake up the next day an you don't taste the movie any more. it's not imprinted in your head any more. i'm a real world, you know, realist guy. i like men and women together nuclear weapon have a chapter, searching for movie blitz in the digital world. i think it's so true people are thinking i can watch it on my ipod or ipad. you said not the same experience. >> the industry says kids are platform agnostic. think about that phrase for a second. they will look at any screen any time anywhere. i had a terrible time with an ipad because i'm near sighted. i had to put it on my belly, you know. >> then you breathe. knives breathing and watching "pirates of the caribbean." on ship board it was going up and down. i want to be overwhelmed by the screen. i want to be immersed.

i want to be surrounded on a all sides. that's not what we're talking about. >> what's the solution because the ipad will exist and we're all going to find different ways to watch movies and watch entertainment. so what's the -- >> all of that will continue. i just don't want to lose the centrality of it. i think big hollywood not little hollywood not the independent, not the brilliant producers like scott rudin and harvey weinstein, six studios have broken the contract with the country. they are no longer giving us our soul, our social life, it's become fantasy and time travel and it's essentially marketed for kids all over the world. those movies are not even for us particularly. two third of the box office now is international. our movies have been defoliated

of local color. >> are you suggesting they shouldn't make money? >> they can do it differently. they can play to small winners. or they can do what has been said. take down those upfront costs. clooney has done this. pay the directors $750,000. and then divide the take at the back end according to fixed percentages. everyone will get paid. if it's a hit you get an enormous payout. the initial layout will sob much cheaper that it might encourage you to take more interest to it. you're not spending $90 million on an ordinary movie. maybe 50. that's still a lot of money. it would make the system saner. it's a great idea. the trouble is the agents won't go for it because they need to get their star. >> you said there are not a lot

of good movies being made. not big budget movies. >> some of the independents. there was a fabulous movie," bea "beasts of the southern wild." that could win the oscar. >> we saw a great video from the "new york post" this morning, we would love to get your comment. could we see it please? >> what am i about to see? >> take a look. >> close your eyes. >> listen. >> what are we looking at? >> that is my question. >> that's charlie rose dancing at melba's. >> it says charlie rose has soul. charlie rose. >> thank you. >> we've known that for a long

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everyone. it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego with your cbs 5 headlines. all eyes on meg whitman today. the ceo of palo alto-based hewlett-packard will give her first annual presentation to investors. hp coming off its worst quarter ever and stock at a 10-year low. whitman said she will have to explain strategies for the company and how it will grow. the as play the rangers for the american league west title today starting at 12:35 for the coliseum. oakland beat texas 3-1 last night. both teams are in the play-offs but the winner will jump into the al divisional series and we're all rooting for the as including lawrence. >> should be a great day to check out that game, too. lots of sunshine around the bay area today all the way to the coastline. we're looking good so far but things likely to change a

little later on today as the sea breeze begins to pick up just a bit. high pressure starting to weak n meaning the temperatures will be cooling down a few degrees. that sea breeze begins to blow and that means numbers will be coming down coastside first maybe some patchy fog moving in later on. hot in the valleys, triple digits gone but 90s likely by the afternoon. 70s in the coast. more low clouds and fog on the way, partly cloudy over the weekend with cooler temperatures and in fact there's a slight chance of showers as we head in toward monday. we are going to check your "timesaver traffic" coming up next. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,

good morning. well, traffic is still trying to recover across the san mateo bridge westbound 92. there was an earlier accident near the high-rise. it is now cleared. but traffic is still stacked up as you approach the flat section of the bridge. they have been doing roadwork on westbound 92 so that's not helping either. also the nimitz 880 through oakland, if you are passing the oakland coliseum, very stop and go right now from hayward towards downtown. there was a crash just beyond the high street exit. this is your drive time in the red right now. 35 minutes between 238 and the maze. by the way, there is a lunchtime as game so we may see extra tie-ups there, as well. and a quick check of drive times for the east bay, look at the eastshore freeway, 45 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the maze. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,